Location: MONTGOMERY, Alabama

In order to garner support for the Treaty of Paris, President McKinley visited Georgia and Alabama with fellow politicians Joe Wheeler, William Shafter, Henry Lawton, and Secretary Alger. The Presidents first stop in Alabama was at the Tuskegee Institute: a school of technical education for black men and women. At Tuskegee, McKinley was met by Booker T. Washington and a parade of 1,200 young...

On August 1, the election in Alabama excited great interest. Reuben F. Kolb, the Populist candidate for governor, led the most formidable opposition to the Democratic Party seen in fifteen years. The election filled every office, and a wide variety of local candidates attracted much interest. This election had the largest number of votes cast ever in Alabama's history.

The Grand Jury investigated a lynching which occurred on February 15, 1896. The victim of the lynching was an African American man named Bob Williams, who shot and killed a Montgomery police officer who was attempting to arrest Williams on charges of beating his wife. After the alleged offense, Williams fled the scene, but was followed and captured approximately 30 miles away. He was brought back...

The figures were in: on June 29, 1899, the southern iron industry made the best showing in its history. Reporting an estimated 605,919 tons in 1899, pig iron movement in the South increased approximately seven fold from the preceding year's 83,821-ton figure. The Wall Street Journal noted, of this the Birmingham district shipped considerably over half. The Birmingham district was also responsible...

On the evening of January 8, 1894 the prominent and well-loved town doctor lay bleeding on his bathroom floor. He had left four or five letters addressed to his most intimate friends before shooting himself in the head. The news of John H. Blue's death shocked his Montgomery, Alabama community. As reported by the Birmingham Age Herald, Blue's suicide was the second act of a larger drama,...

The stage was set; the town was ready. The conference on race relations to be held in Montgomery, Alabama was a highly anticipated event. The political affair would bring to town many of the nation's finest orators and most distinguished authorities on the subject of race. On May 8, 1900, the Montgomery Auditorium hosted the conference, which included various speeches on racial issues from greater...